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Friday Finance: Baby On The Way? Lots of Stuff to Buy? Don't let your new arrival break the bank. Here are four great tips to shopping and spending wisely.

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Pregnancy Brain:  Standing in your doorway, but can’t remember where you’re headed? Worried you’re the culprit who put the toilet paper in the fridge? Yep, we know how you feel. Pregnancy brain is a bothersome by-product of pregnancy. Three words of advice: Post-It Notes!! We’ve got your baby brain drain survival strategies right here.
 

      
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Hello to the Thickness
It’s at this point where you can pretty much say bye to what was once your waistline—it won’t be back anytime soon. During this trimester and for the remainder of your pregnancy journey, you should be gaining about a half pound to a pound every week.  Time to shop for maternity clothes.  And little Junior will start kicking up a storm.
 

      
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Your Baby
Second Trimester: Week by Week

Bye-bye morning sickness. Hello morning sex. The second trimester brings renewed energy, more va va voom in the bedroom, and a burning desire to tell the world that you’ve got a chocolate bun in the oven.  Good thing, because you’ll likely have much bigger boobs and an expanded waistline to explain. And at about twenty weeks, a sonogram can typically detect the baby’s gender. We told you it was good stuff.
 

      
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